Cancer link to reactor accident
NZPA London Britain's worst nuclear reactor accident 26 years ago may have caused up to 260 cases of thyroid cancer, 13 of them fatal, reports an expert study.
A further seven Britons could have died from other cancers or hereditary disease developed from a higher than normal radiation, said the study by the national Radiological Protection Board. No details of any victim were given.
The accident, a two-day fire at the plutonium producing Windscale nuclear reactor on England’s northwest coast; sent smoke containing radioactive iodine into the atmosphere over northern England and Wales and parts of northern Europe in October, 1957. lodine when taken into the body is concentrated in the thyroid gland. The people most seriously affected were mainly children who drank milk from cows on contaminated grass-
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Press, 19 February 1983, Page 8
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